yoshua171

Yosh/Gan Character Testing Grounds

Genmyou – The Shade of Clarity

_Awareness

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His gaze having fallen upon the statue of hands, Genmyou made no move to turn as Kobuto made himself known in the room--not that he hadn't already been tracking the kage's movements. He took in the details of the man's movements, the intricacies of his posture, demeanor and what specifically he had decided to hold. That his book was not closed was telling, but nonetheless he made no mention of the Jade book as he replied to the Tsuchikage's words. "Yes, indeed they are," he began, his posture hidden by his robes, face by his mask. His fingers, hidden by his clothes, moved in handseals. Chakra of the electrical variety readied itself within him as he spoke again, "Though I doubt that is the only reason you've sought me out, Kobuto. It is not often that I leave my office without guards after all and when I do, few know I am gone." His head turned towards the man, silver eyes piercing and unreadable as they stared through the holes in the mask to observe Kobuto directly.

The Raikage made move to turn to fully face the man, but his fingers continued weaving seals, each hand preforming a separate set. So far he'd prepared two lightning techniques and two seals of a sort. "So, my question is simple. What is it you wish to discuss?" There was the sound of a smile in his voice, though his eyes betrayed nothing.

Perhaps he already knew.

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Agreed on that account.

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To be fair, from my understandings, preps don't really determine how easy or not they are to stop, but how much power is behind them. You can prep one hundred turns, if I can logically stop it... fuckdatshitson #nitpicky xD

@Rilla

In the case of Khazna's swords, each prep used for a magical attack constitutes how many times "threads" he has to cut to nullify that magical attack/defense/maneuver.

Sooooo

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This whole conversation is like two icebergs having an argument.

Both of them are drifting apart, but neither of them would budge if force was applied to them.

@LeeRoy

*Has been reading this whole time* Is there an argument, LeeRoy? This really seems like just a discussion to understand the two systems and what the failings of the interrupt system are. Rather than a debate to decide which is superior or which is flawed.

@Gun

Relevant Rant

Funny how I know exactly what you mean about "retroactive interrupts," now. I had to deal with the difficulty of reaction speed quite a bit in my fight against Khan's unreasonably fast (in processing power, reaction, and physical movement) character, Khazna. The character also possesses a sword which allows him to do the following:

Cut the space-time threads that cause a magical attack to occur meaning that no matter how far into the spell someone is the entire effect ceases to exist. Meaning that the spell is essentially never cast with few exceptions.

Granted, my own character, Raelis, was quite fast and had sufficiently advanced perceptual abilities and processing power that the field was evened a little.

Still that entire fight was just a clusterfuck of interrupts wherein I kept cutting off Khan's posts part way through (because she kept trying to carry out over 2 actions in each post and despite them being high speed, my character had the perceptual abilities to notice so he could react). It was pretty absurd really.

Mostly because of the fact that his character "predicted," my actions multiple times while also using those space-time blades, which were absurdly OP.

So yeah, I feel your pain...intimately. Imagine your fireball/vacuum nullification situation, except you have prepped it for several turns meaning it shouldn't be easily stopped, and then because of their space-time blade they stop the spell from ever having occurred "just because."

Frustrating. I also lost that fight only because we ran out of time and Khan couldn't reply to my last post (we had a deadline), which was more or less impossible to deal with. Mind you it took me the whole fight to set that maneuver up, so it wasn't cheap. It was also notable that Khan's character was the one who caused the maneuver in a sense. :P

Ah yes, subconscious metagaming. Tis annoying, but oh well we're all human so we must put up with it ^^;

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Please stop arguing with the Melon.

The Melon has no empathy or reason, so trying to argue with him is ultimately futile. Because he will never see your point.

@LeeRoy

"Arguing"

Lol.

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Huh, neat.

Well, @Gun my only question since that's all accurate are as follow:

1.) When you say "retroactive," or "retroactively," what specifically do you mean in regards to interrupts? In my experience the idea of interrupts works by the principle that actions in two posts are happening more or less simultaneously as in real life.

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I might have one other question, but I can't recall it at the moment.

[yoshua171 Vs. LilyGold] Magic's Essentials

@Lilygold your turn, sorry for the wait :)

Titan's Retribution

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Timore Scarborough

_Entrapment

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Timore's smile remained even as she made attempts to evade, which the serpent did not follow or make further efforts to stop. He made no movements either. He had her firmly in his grasp after all. "Unfortunately miss, I'm to take you into custody or eliminate you outright. Your choice really. I don't care much either way," stated the Musician with a slight shrug, his smile remaining. He had a slightly smug air about him even as he awaited her response. Still, despite his apparent motionlessness, the energies which danced invisibly about his form weaved through the air in subtle strings, each plucking their own tune via his whim as they unwound themselves around her. None of the energy ever touched her form or anything near her as they all positioned themselves several feet away, amounting to around 3 feet of room for her. Still, they were numerous and their purpose simple, though likely effective.

It was a net he had cast and it would close should he required it to.

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@MelonHead it's funny how you think that just because you made no clearly defined insults, that you were not being vitriolic. Mind you, I'm not saying you were being vitriolic, I am saying it came off that way.

Also, tone does not convey well over the internet and you're doing that thing where you speak exactly what you think while using pure logic.

I've learned well (as someone who often comes off as an asshole online when I am NOT one) that it is better to insert a bit of humor and humanity into your posts. Makes it harder for people to take you the wrong way. Then again, that takes effort and I know some wish not to spend/waste time to put forth the effort required for that.

I don't care whether you do or not, but I mean, unless you want to be a constant source of arguments (as it seems other simply you tend to be) then I'd take that advice in mind. Or at least briefly consider it. Idk, it's your life man haha.

Also, you made a pitiful attempt of understanding his system before condemning it. Pity.

@Gun

Hmm.

Yeah, interrupts really only get absurd when you have people who move really fast, have tons of perception, can multitask a lot, and/or when you include the ability to dish out more than one attack per post or per timeframe.

Example: My whole fight with Khan in the recent tournament (Rising Darkness) in which both characters had pretty much all of the above. It didn't help that Khan wrote long posts with entire chains of actions, which were simply illogical (in terms of them occurring before my character reacted =_=).

Nonetheless. I'm quite used to interrupts myself and my discovery of them allowed a great amount of increased agency in combat--at least in my opinion.

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I'm trying to figure out how your system works even after having read it just because the difference of the two systems interests me and I'd love to have a simple conversation/friendly debate about it. Nothing vitriolic. I tend not to assume things unnecessarily, so yeah.

My understanding of your "no illogical interrupts," system:

"Interrupts are defined as Retroactive attacks/defenses/counters/evasions carried out in such a way that they invalidate(as I understand it) the other character's action(s)."

>Interrupts are allowed in the sense that you may use them as long as they do not retroactively cause a character to nullify actions taken by another character entirely.
>Interrupts must be logical (You can use them if someone is clearly preparing something or you can predict/tell someone is telegraphing an attack in some manner)
>Barring the above, the other character's actions as written in the associated post cannot be stopped. However, someone can move out of the way, bring up a defense, take cover or perhaps close distance so long as the action does not altogether stop their actions.
>Most other things are as per the norm.